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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
The Ruby Mines of Burmah.

Owing to the very great jealousy of the
Burmese government, the ruby mines
have been carefully guarded from all
strangers, and from this cause our knowl-
edge regarding them is very small. The
mines are said to be only about sixty
miles northeast Of Mandalay. The extent
of ground over which the rubies exist has
not been precisely ascertained, but it is
believed to extend at least over 100 square
miles.
The ''gem bed" as it is called, or strata
in which the rubies are found, varies con-
siderably at different points in its depth
Pits are sunk down vertically till gem
bed has been touched, and then horizontal
galleries are formed through it. These
strata differ considerably in thickness;
sometimes they are only a few inches,
while in others they are found several
feet in depth The earth of the gem bed
is brought up to the surface, where it Ii
carefully washed and the gems are sc
cured The most of the rubies are small
but large ones do turn up; the difficulty
is to find large ones without flaw.
The lapidaries or gem polishers ars In
the capital and not at the mines. The
polishing process is performed by
pounding the smaller gems and worth
less stones, These are pounded and
4 xed with other substances and formed
into cakes about ten inches long and four
wide. The good rubies are rubbed on
this. When the stone has been ground
down roughly on this fine cake is en-
ployed, and the finishing touch to the gem
is given by rubbing it on plates of brass or
copper.-London News.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
The Princess of Wales.

In less than a month the Princess of
Wales will complete her 42d year. Her
royal highness remains one of the young
est looking women of her age in England,
despite married life that has not been
all sugar plums and coffee. During the
last year or two, however, the princess
has, regretably enough, aged somewhat,
as those VIII know her most intimately
and love her best have been forced to
admit. Time is tracing lines about her
kindly eyes, and her neck, that sure
chronicle of woman's age, has Its dis
agreeable little tale to tell; but these little
things detract nothing from the magnetic
charm of her presence, and it is satisfac-
ton to know that she makes as good a
portrait as ever-a satisfaction, because
it is by means of her photographs that
the princess is principally known to the
common people.
The princess birthday will be cele-
hrated by ball to the Sandringham
tenants, whose ladies are already scour-
ing the country for appropriate dress in
which to meet her royal highness. Necks
and shoulders and arms are being nightly
inspected before the mirror in their
owners anxiety to know whether they
will be sufficiently presentable for barring
to the critical gaze of royalty A great
trade is being done by the Norfolk
chemists in skin washes and blood mix
lures. A revival in this branch of their
business occurs about this time annually,
we believe.-London Letter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
u. S. Grant as q Farmer.

When Can't. Grant returned from
Oregon, where he had resigned his COM
mission, his father-in-law presented his
wife with sixty acres of land and three
negroes-two men and woman. Capt.
Grant went to work in good earnest, and
with his two negro men dug cellar,
hauled the stones for the walls, stoned it
up, cut and hauled the logs with which
the house was built, and then split the
shingles with which it was rooted. At
the raising his neighbors turned out to
help him, and in due time he was the oc-
cupant of his own house.
His first occupation was to clear a field,
and he was certainly an adept at chopping
wood. AS the winter came on he hauled
this wood into St. Louis, and had, OF
course, a good team, bay and gray,
which he boasted could draw heavier
load than any other horses in the settle
ment. At first his neighbors thought it
was only boast. but after going along
the road with him with lighter loads they
found that he was an authority on horses.
He never would ride, though, on his load,
saying that 'the team has enough to draw
without carrying lazy driver"
His first crops were corn, wheat, potatoes
and a few garden vegetables. He raised
300 bushels of potatoes to the acre, and it
was his boast that with his team he
hauled seventy bushels of wheat which
he had raised to st. Louis in one load.
Wearing pair of old blue army trowsers,
tucked into high, heavy boots, flannel
shirt, an old undress blue sack coat with
the military buttons replaced by plain
ones, and a slouch hat which turned up
before and down behind, he did not much
resemble gentleman farmer" The
guests at the Planters house used to
stare little when he was invited in tC
dinner with old comrades, toward whom
his heart warmed always.
On one occasion an officer who had
served with him, visiting st. Louis, drove
out to see him and found him in his
wheat field in his shirt sleeves leading
three other men who, like himself, were
swinging cradles. But the land was pool
and the crops did not prove remunerative
To aid him in suppoeting his family hi
undertook the collection of accounts fol
some of his neighbors who had sold theil
vegetables ON credit to different parties II
the city, but he was not successful in dun
ming, Perley Poore.
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at am my painful dooty to inform dis
club dat Brudder Arbustus jenkins has
passed from airth away" said Brother
Gardner when the triangle had ceased to
toll. HE was an honorary member OF
dis club, hbin' in de stait Of North Caro-
liny, an he was only is cents behind on
his dues. IL kin not be said of Arbustus
dat he was either a statesman, poet,
philosopher, philanthropist or scholar.
He was simply an eberyday man, who
did not shrink eandwise when he got
wet.
GAS citizen Of de United States he
did not go braggin' aroun' about our
bein' de greatest nashnn on airth, but he
had hickory club laid away for any
country which might knock de chip OF
our shoulder.
s'As an elector he went to de polls ebery
time dar' was a chance to vote, an some
times when deir wasn't, an If he split his
ticket it was bekase he was deeply inter
ested in de matter of honest guv'ment.
GAS a laborer he was worthy of his
hire. When he wasn't workin' he was
thinkin' fur de benefit of his boss. If de
boss didn't know dis it was his own fault.
GAS a naybur he nebber borrowed
coffee an sugar widout maxim u mark
on de tin cup, so he could return good
measure.
Gas O member of de community in
which he dwelt he upheld de law in de
daytime an stole watermelyons under
kiver of darkness, thereby settin' good
example for de young.
GAS a church member he prayed soft
an low, an he was half line behind all
de rest in de singin'. In case he happened
to be cotched wild ham belonging to
somebody else no reflechuns could be cast
on de church.
GAS husband he bossed de cabin, an
as father he brung his chillen up to
fear de law an respect ole Gige.
eve shall hang out the usual emblem
Of mourning on de outer doah, an we
shall feel bit sorry dat a fair to medium
man has passed away. Dat will be all.
We shan't pass no resolushuns to send
to his wife, who knowed him better dan
anybody else, nor will we claim dat our
heartfelt sympathies go out fur de chill
Zen, who am probably no better dan any
body else's. It am huff for us dat we
kin say Arbustus was up to the aiverge,
an dat death could have tooken wusser
man an not half tried. detroit Free
praS1
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What to Do with Criminals.

But what should we SO with the thugs,
sluggers, assasslns-men who revel In
blood and wounds and deathP
This;
Let the United States government, in
conjunction with the state governments,
buy an island in the Pacific ocean, guard
it with gunboats, and thereto send the
great host of murderous scoundrels who
have been condemned to the scaffold, who
have been sentenced for life to the peni-
tentiary for bloodshed, who lurk and lie
in wait in our cess pools and slime pits,
with revolver and dagger; all who are
known to the police as dangerous char
acters.
Let all rape devils be sent there, and
all who spit upon and trample the eternal
laws of God and man under foot.
"They will kill each other" you may
protest.
Let them kill!
You, nor I, nor any of us will be re-
sponsible for that. Our government will
not be responsible for orr blood.
The better element that is in all men
will assert itself in the felon community,
and in time they will attain state OF
civilization equal to their own.
In mercy, let us do this, remembering
that the environments and ancestry OF
these scoundrels were not the same as
ours, and their respectabflity is many de-
grees less than our own.--Will Hubbard
Herman in Chicago Journal.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
Chinese Woman Slavery.

No matter where the Chinese 60, and no
matter under what form of government
they are living, they are bound to carry
out their ideas of woman as marketable
article. In Hong Kong, under o govern
ment that airs its boast that slavery can
not exist under the shadows Of its flag,
women arc bought and sold every day.
In the British settlement at Shanghai reg
ular auctions of women are held under
more Coldblooded circumstances than
Arab ba Ears or those slave auctions in the
south. 1t is part of the system of the
Chinese and can no more be eradicated
in places where it has gained foothold
than the Chinese themselves. So long as
the Chinese confined their buying and sell
ing operations to their own women the
subject did not present such an acute in
terest for the rest of the world.
But, unfortunately, the Chinaman is
awakening to the superiority of foreign
productions over his own native article
Chinese are now endeavoring in all parts
of the world to which they migrate to con-
tract temporary marriages with white
women, and if, when the time comes to
return to China, it is not elected to desert
both family and wife, the unfortunate
dupe, who has perhaps thought she en-,
tered into perfectly legal union, is pre-,
vailed upon to accompany her lord tc
China, she will have to take the place OF
third or fourth wife-i. e., a marketable
and prosecuted concubine-in a native
establishment. Some very lamentable oc-
currences of this kind have been brought
to notice in late years. To the woman
who contracts union with q Chinaman
who has left his country an adult, the
chances are almost sure that she takes uI
with one who has already wife or two
San Francisco Examiner.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
Brief Period of Mourning.

A society man who was invited recently
to fashionable ball declined to go because
he was in mourning The man who had
extended the invitation was astonished
two weeks later to receive from his ac-
quaintance in mourning request to at
tend private ball which he proposed
giving at his own house. The man met
his friend in mourning on the avenue
that afternoon and greeted him with the
question .' 9iFiaa1 ft 7..
90" thought you were in mourningP'
"No, no. was in mourning for fifteen
days" Ia .,.,s, F,.,,I sat. -,.y
For fifteen daysl Who was that forS''
"My brother-in-law. The fellow wasn't
worth any more" '''<
The witty paragrapher viii take this
story, substitute mother-in-law for broth
er-in-law, and then it will travel around
the country. New York Mail and Ex-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
The Question Of Chesp Living,

The question of how cheap family can
live and how cheap q workman might live,
and how cheap preacher should live, ETC.,
has been debated in public and discussed
in private on divers and numerous oc-
casions, but has it ever occurred to you,
reader, how cheaply student who is hew-
ing his own way through college by his
own unaided eXertions must live? was
sitting in suburban depot waiting for
the train which was to take me back to
Chicago, one day last week, when was
accosted by young man whom I recog-
niZed as O student in attendance on a
prominent school not far away.
He is studying for the ministry, and
freely informed me that he had been out
delivering subscription books, and that
this was his way of earning q college edu-
cation. "I occasionally miss term,n he
remarked, cheerily, ''but manage, after
all, to get along comfortably" elbow
much does it cost your poorest students to
lives" I inquired. t'If they board them
selves, as I and many do,'' he replied,
''about dollar week pays the expenses.
Butt he added, ''some. live on. less than
that, and know Of q friend of mine in the
same school, an earnest biblical student,
who told me himself only recently, that he
lives on thirty eights per weekr' The
statement made me gasp for breath, for
well remembered how hard it used to be
for certain student to worry his way
through on seventy cents week, Yet
cases Of this kind are common enough all
about us. Cor Chicago journal.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
No. 60, the staver.

1.-THE oldest locomotive now in use any
where near Chicago, +" remarked rail-
roader, 'is No. go on the Illinois Central,
still making regular trips down the road
She has been in use thirty-three years
1t is estimated that in that time she has
travelled 1,650,O00 miles, or equal to
sixty-six times around the globe She
has hauled passenger trains, freight
trains, speciul trains, pay cars. gravel
trains and done switching. She has been
in several accidents, but was never badly
damaged. She has killed her man. half
a dozen times, The average life Of a
locomotive is ten or twelve years, and SO
you can sea that old No go is slayer"
Chicago herald. gg5a y7A~s4esi sii
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
WAITING.

They have gone through life together,
They have braved it5 stormy weather,
Many year.
Time has iilched from beauty's treasured
But Love ssorns the hoard he measures
With leer.
Md the wOrlrs turmoil and fretting,
They'd no tears and vain regretting
For the past;
All their troubles firmly breasting,
They have found the time for resting,
Sweet at last.
There are sraves upon the meadow
Baby forms that lie in shadow,
Dark and still:
Ali they felt litc's fountain drying,
When they looked on baby, dying,
But-"Thy will"
Now, with pulses throbbing steady.
Hand in hand they're waiting, ready,
Not sigh
For a time that's swiftly fleeting,
There will be joyous meeting
By and bye,
Hollis W. Field.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
A Girdle Ronnd the Enrth.

The time required for telegraphic sig
nal to pass around the earth is the, subject
of an inquiry in The Scientific American.
It states that on q good land telegraph
line OF length equal to the circumference
of the earth, about one second would be
needed. Ocean cables would considerably
increase this, even to several seconds. -
Boston Transcript. IN 4,4 500
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
HEARING AND TOUCH.

When sight goes in youth the sense of
hearing becomes intensely acute, and
music is source of the deepest pleasure.
The sense of touch acquires such deli
cacy and power that the blind may be
said not only to see with the tips of their
fingers, but with their whole bodies.
Those who recover sight are long time
learning how to use their eyes. Accord
ing to DR.. Guilbeau, who to-day was at
the museum of the Rue de Rousselet to
give any explanations visitors might
want, such persons often, when told to
fetch objects which they have already seen
and learned the names of, instinctively
shut their eyes and feel for them. A
variety of maps for the blind shown at
this museum display great ingenuity, and
the cost prices of them are low Among
them are celestial aliases.
l should not forget the various means
for enabling the blind to write and cor
respond with each other and with persons
who see. In the former case they use the
Braille characters and in the latter the
ordinary Roman characters, but the
pencil, with an agate or other hard point,
moves from right to left. Its course is
marked by lines of strong thread stretched
ON piece of cloth, beneath which there
is sheet of paper. When the paper is
taken out and turned the words that have
been traced are in relief and to be read
from left to right The chess boards differ
little from those used at sea by naval
officers. The playing cards have all tiny
marks in relief on the inside corners,
which on being felt by q blind player, en-
ables him to understand his own hand
and know what his partner or opponent
has played. The sightless can thus play
rubbers of whist with persons who are
not sightless. s.-Leeds Mercury.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
N O TT G e
--TO-
TEACHERS

The Board Of School Examiners Of Henry count
Ohio, will hold meetings for the examination OF az
plicants for teachers certificates as follows:
In Basement of Court House in NJ.
poleon, Ohio, on the 1st and Sd Satnr
days in March and the tst and Sd SAT
urdays in April and May, the LIST Sat
urday in June, July and August, tn
tst and sd Saturdays in scrtemh'i
and the list and Sd Sa, urdays in Oct q.
Der, the 1st and Sd Saturdays in NJ
yember, and the tst Saturdays in De
cember, January and February.
Evidence of good moral character will be require
Of all candidates. That evidence to be persolr'
knowledge of the Examiners concerning the app'i
cant, or certificates of good moral character from
some reliable source.
NJ. AA5 A!H, sEFHHk;srnD, TE!Eak; s'.'!;s e Examiners
PHILIP @. SCHWAB. sH j
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la' Health Of women is1the hope of the
race.' Lydia e. . Pinkliam's Vegetable
Compound is to, be had at the nearest
drug store for dollar.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14

s. Brusque Editor--I must decline your
poem it lacks merit. Indignant Poet
No, sir. You simply lack appreciation.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14

sa"Oh! iftI had only known that in
time" Known what? "Known that
a simple cold in the head may develop
into chronic catarril.n Well, i3it isn't
too late, for Ely's Cream Balm will
cure Catarrh even after the sufferers
life has become a burden to him, and
he nuisance to his friends. 1t is the
only radical and thoroughly scientific
catarrh cure known Not q snuff.
Not a liquid. % Price fifty cents. m2t .
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genulty Displayed. q

A museum for the blind has been opened
in the Rue de Rousselet 1t has been es-
tablshed by the blind DR.. Guilbeau, one
of the professors in the Institute des
Jeunes Aveugles, and contains specimens
of nearly all the objects invented for q
long course of years for schools primary,
technical and others) for sightless pupils.
Persons having blind relatives or friends
will on Tuesdays obtain any information
they may want about books, maps, writ
ing apparatus, teachers and SO on for their
special benefit. Not the least curious part
of the exhibition is what is contained in
the bookcase. There is there large col
lection of quarto volumes, all the principal
characters of which are raised on the
Braille system. This is now more in use
than any other in Italy, Prussia, Alsace
and the United States. 1t is said that it
has the merit of being very simple, but to
an unaccustomed eye it is as hard to make
out as shorthand.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
FOR THE SIGHTBESS.
BOOKS, MAPS AND WRITING AP-
PARATUS FOR BLIND PEOPLE.

A French .sIuseum-what England Has
Aecomplished-one of the Triumphs of
Modern Educational wOrk-Great In
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-14
ENGLISH BLIND ALPHABET.

The English blind alphabet is quite diff
ferent, looking like the Ninevite inscrip-
ton. The letters, according to the Braille
system, are made like the French sign for
an acute accent, and are set in squares
The relative angles at which they are
placed, one to another, give them alpha
betical meaning. Blindness is much more
the scourge of the poor man than of the
rich. If, therefore, charitable societies
did not bring out books for the blind it
would be impossii lie for this unfortunate
class to obtain tiem Most of those in
the Braille type are for school classes.
There are already eight volumes Of Lit
tres dictionary, some works of reference,
La Fontaine's Fables, Boileau's Lutrin Sc
lections from the great French authors in
prose and verse and a Bible, which has
been printed bya society to further educa-
tion among the blind.
But the efforts made in this direction in
France are poor when compared with the
results won in England, although tho
alphabet used there seems less easy to
learn and covers moro space than the
Braille one. In England there have been
as many as hundred thousand volumes
printed for sightless readers, including the
Bible, the Pilgrims Progress, Milton's
works and all Shakespeare plays, but, as
DR.. Guilbeau says, these facts should not
discourage him and his fellow workers,
because the English speaking peoples form
the most reading nations of the world, or
at least the nations who give the most
business to the printer and publisher. An
encouraging fact is the existence in France
of three periodicals for the blind. One, LIE
Louis Braille, is monthly and costs three
francs year. Its fortnightly edition
costs seven francs, and embraces great
variety of topics which enter into the
common range of journalism. Les Trois
Mondes is the second. 1t appears at Mar
seilles where the number of sightless per-
sons is great, and there appears in the
same city q weekly paper chiefly devoted
to musical topics. 1t has circulation of
about 600, and 4S0 blind persons subscribe
to IL
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-13
TO-MORROW'S GRAND EVENT.
The Valentine Ball in the Salt Lake
.a. Theatre.

Preparations for the grand ball to be
given 10 the Theatre tomorrow night
are well gh complete, and everything
promises a pleasant evenings recrea-
ton. There is to be an enlarged Or
chestra, under the leadership of Prof.
Olsen, which is an assurance that the
music will be the best obtainable. Jim
Currie will act as prompter. The
Theatre is to be decorated by Charlie
Willard, while Evans and Timms Will
see that the floor is in the best condi-
ton. Tommy Manning, with a corps
of assistants will manage the cloak
room, and checks for gentlemen's coats
and hats. and also ladies' wraps, will be
entirely free of charge, and Tommy will
see that they have the best of
care. The back, or stage door,
will not be opened, the main
front entrance only being used.
Ladies will find dressing rooms on the
west side of the building. The cloak
room, and gents dressing rooms on the
east side. Programmes obtainable at
the door. Those who desire to attend
as spectators only, will be admitted to
the first circle on payment of fifty cents.
There will be no tickets. The admis
sion fee will be taken at the door,
Everything that can be done for the
comfort and convenience of guests has
had attention, and we predict the most
pleasant party OF the season.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-13
PERSONAL.


F. WALL, of Santsquin, is in town.
v. L. HALLIDAY was up from Prove
yesterday.
GEO. PROCTOR, OF Union, was in town
yesterday. ms 'rt.t- f.- .
LOUIS PETERSON came up from Bluff
Dale yesterday.
DR.. ]. w. PIKE, OF Provo, was in Salt
Lake on Saturday. ~
r. NELSON was in from Pleasant
Green on Saturday.
JOHN JONES, of Spanish Fork, was in
the city on Saturday.
JAMES NELSON drove up from Big
Cottonwood yesterday.
Dow CHAFF1N was down from Farm
ington again yesterday.
PRESIDENT a. o. SMooT, of Provo,
was in Salt LaAe yesterday.
WIN. CARROLL, the Provo contractor
ard builder, came up to the city on
business last evening.
A. B. RICHARDSON, cashier of the
Park City Bank, is down from the
Summit County snow banks.
D. NJ. McALLIsTER is confined TO his
room. He has suffered severely. but
was somewhat better yesterday.